Retail

Studio Movie Grill Teams Up With CashStar

Studio Movie Grill (SMG), a specialist in in-theater dining exhibition, is teaming up with CashStar, a provider of prepaid commerce solutions, to launch a new digital gift card program. The program will deliver a personalized experience for both the sender and recipient, as well as give SMG the ability to execute targeted marketing campaigns.

SMG has more than 200 screens across nine different states, combining first-run movies with in-theater dining services.

"Everyone loves getting -- and giving -- the gift of entertainment and CashStar enhances our customers' experience by offering the option of purchasing personalized digital gift cards for their family and friends," said Julia Landrum, vice president, revenue, at Studio Movie Grill. "Delivered within minutes, our patrons will value how this option provides them with a convenient, efficient way to spread the love we all have in the movie-going experience. We chose CashStar because of the company's holistic, customer-centric approach to providing solutions that enable us to exceed the needs and expectations of our loyal customers."

CashStar Commerce, CashStar's cloud-based platform, enables SMG to manage all direct-to-consumer gift card sales - including online sales of plastic cards - and provides its marketing team the ability to motivate purchases through proven promotional strategies. SMG will also utilize CashStar Commerce's business application to scale the company's B2B efforts.

"SMG exemplifies the future of movie-going and we're excited to partner with this forward-thinking brand as they look to improve the customer experience across all touchpoints," said CashStar President and CEO Ben Kaplan.